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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] cmake regression for 1.40 vs. 1.39...
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-06 17:02:53


Sean Chittenden wrote:
> Hello. I'm trying to use 1.40 in a fresh dev environment using cmake
> and am having significant difficulties getting it to work. 1.39 works
> flawlessly with cmake, but 1.40.... not so much. I've had to manually
> edit Makefiles and .cmake files to include various include_directories,
> change cmake_install.cmake files, etc.
>
> Is there a branch that's not the mainline boost svn that contains a
> working cmake build environment? I know cmake is considered
> experimental but it looks like there's a fair amount of bit rot in the
> cmake build goo.
>
> Should I migrate back to bjam? Thanks in advance.
>

I'm not seeing any problems with a simple build-and-install on recent
ubuntu... what are the details of what you're seeing? I'll be
maintaining cmake branches out in gitland, if you want to clone and
participate, great; otherwise, diffs against 1.40 are cool too.

-t


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